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Travel back to the Prohibition era and watch President Franklin Roosevelt sign the beer bill into law
“To drink or not to drink,” a dilemma that divided the United States from the ratification...
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New York City Deputy Police Commissioner John A. Leach (right) watching agents pour...
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Roosevelt, Franklin D.; Cullen-Harrison Act
U.S. Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt signing the Cullen-Harrison Act, which permitted...
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